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Peter Tolf and Augusta Landstrom Marry

At first we thought there were two couples; Peter & Christine Tolf and Adolf & Augusta Sandstrom. Isn’t that what it looks like?

Witnesses at Tolf/Peterson wedding

But it was actually only one couple, Peter Tolf and Augusta Landstrom. They each brought a sibling to act as witnesses when Peter and Christine’s brother Frans Tolf married Matilda Peterson on the 31st of December 1881 in Batavia, Kane, Illinois.

Love was in the air; just three weeks later Peter and Augusta tied the knot:

1882 Marriage Certificate Tolf and Landstrom

For cousins trying to place Peter Tolf, Augusta Landstrom and me in our family tree:

my maternal grandmother was Harriette Kathlyn TOLF (1909-1954); one of three children born to

Julia Christine THOMPSON (1888-1964) and Harry Wilhelm TOLF (1884-1964); one of three children born to